p.141

"the knowledge producer sees objects and can measure their scale, but this determination of scale is only enabled by the earlier disciplinary resolving cut that delimited the scale of
the inquiry (scaled) and thereby resolved particular assemblages or parts of assemblages as individuated objects."

#scale #STS #Barad #CosmicZoom

"Kees Boeke’s groundbreaking work, Cosmic View, not only
inaugurates the modern cosmic-­zoom project but provisions us with an understanding of scale as a negotiation of difference between two (or more) surfaces."

p.137

Horton refreshing one of the central arguments of the book here- that continuity of scale is an achievement that demands quite a bit of work, using both theory and technologies.

#scale #MediaTheory #Zoom #CosmicZoom

@jet
Here's Cosmic Zoom featuring a mosquito
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgfwCrKe_Fk

#BoardsOfCanada
(just kidding)
#FilmBoardOfCanada
#CosmicZoom